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February 7, 1990
“Hard to Kill”
And The Art Of
The Movie Critic
Each year, in time for the Academy
Awards, the once upon a time Athenian, J.
Greg Clark, prepared the semi-official bal
lots for guessing the award winners with the
unstated purpose of gambling while dem
onstrating so-called profound insights into
the nature of the cinema. Each year my
ballot was always simple: I wrote in my
choices for best movie, actor, etc. Of course
I always lost because my choices were not
even in the running, and besides, no one
ever took me seriously, even though it was
my own genius that selected “Lethal
Weapon” followed by “Lethal Weapon II”
and “Above the Law.” And this year I would
suggest “Tango and Cash”, an ultimate
conquest of Neo-Dadist irrationality. How
ever, this year is not up and, as I predicted,
and will not emblazon upon the Apple
memory disc for all eternity, the greatest
movie of the year is, the yet-to-be-seen,
long-awaited post sequel to “Above the
Law””, once again starring Steven Segal as
a Zen murder machine, in “Hard to Kill”.
Sight unseen, I most heartily recommend
this movie. I risk my awesome credibility on
my full, unreserved support for whatever
Steven Segal does in this next film. This is a
rapturous vision that I once held only for the
early Clint Eastwood, the existential, exter
minating angel of death and deliverance.
Having not yet seen this film I remember
it well, just like my experiences in the house
of Kama Sutra and will paraphrase from
Salvadore Dali in support of this film made
independently of any aesthetic purpose.
That which makes this movie radically dif
ferent from any other id the unique fact that
instead of being conventional, prefabri
cated, unconscious and hypnotically con
ditioned, it is real and therefore, like life
itself, enigmatic, incoherent, irrational,
absurd, inexplicable and, of course, sub
lime. Let me emphasize: the facts of real life
are irrational, inconsistent, and unexplain
able and it is only through the consubstan-
tial imbecility and cretinism of the majority of
non-thinking humans that one is hypnotized
in believing that real life is endowed with a
well defined significance and a normal
coherent meaning.
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